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ers but the sports center filled up and we didn t make it we looked for some food had some communication issues but we took some deep breaths and survived we finally met up with the greater group at another church for taize prayer very necessary after the torrid afternoon my favorite song from the prayer was this simple phrase nada te turbe nada te espante quien a dios tiene nada le falta let nothing unsettle you let nothing frighten you whomever has god lacks nothing taize prayer meditative prayer involving the repetition of songs slowly so that it sinks in the sun was still out and shining when the event concluded the day still wasn t over and we went over to a square to see the opening mass on a huge screen that was set up i fell asleep quickly that night you can get another cookie or maybe save the rest for tomorrow i don t mind day 2 august 16 wednesday i woke up the next morning completely enthused it was the first day of catechesis catechesis means oral teaching catechesis happened each morning three days in a row and we d be taught by a different bishop or archbishop each day there were several places we could go for an english speaking bishop including our parish so we decided to stay there before the bishop arrived a nigerian priest and choir were in charge of coordinating this event and they led us in song prayer and witness talks afterwards we were joined by the bishop of dublin who looked a little like this he talked about the great desire he has to touch the youth of his country and his hope to rekindle the faith that has been so watered down in the past decades there was mass and then we were off into madrid for more adventure we went to park where i found winnie the pooh not as good as the poohs you find at disney world alas a christian aussie band a gaudi exposition and a vocations fair exhausted we plopped down on the grass sang some songs were joined in song by some strangers and we met some cute kids who thought our american swag was the best my favorite part of the day though was going to a concert in memory of blessed chiara luce badano who died when she was eighteen her now much older parents were there and they gave their testimony on the life of their daughter who bravely suffered through cancer in total surrender to jesus while i was there my hard heart softened tremendously and i had great hope for the kind of great love i wanted to give during my own life favorite song from the concert blessed means that chiara was beatified or that she s on the 2nd of three steps to being declared a saint by the catholic church day 3 august 17 thursday my new zealander friend kathleen invited me to go look at a fashion museum but that meant missing catechesis i weighed my options and i decided to go to the museum it was breathtaking the most beautiful collection of garments i have ever seen they ranged from the 16th century to the present kathleen actually makes dresses so she was quickly sketching sleeves ruffles and petticoats i tried to sketch some things too but the light was dim presumably to keep the items of clothing in good condition kathleen and i had a nice time getting to know each other and we were back by noon just in time for me to see that the bishop of brooklyn had been the visiting speaker the pope was going to arrive that day so we decided to head into the city so we had time to do something before that we went to an exhibit on mother theresa 3 young ratzinger afterwards in the heat and after many attempts to find a place that would let us use their bathrooms we waited on the side of a street to wait for the pope to come by i sat right on the curb and the popemobile whisked by alright i cried just a little i didn t really expect to but my religious emotionalism got to me i didn t feel too awkward since the filipino girl next to me made weird sobbing sounds which i could only interpret as a good thing if walt disney had shown up i would have died a happy woman we walked toward a screen to watch the pope deliver his an opening address big screens were placed around the city during any big event because not everybody could fit in the square or area where said thing was taking place i tried to translate things here and there for my american buddies but i wasn t that good at it and i think they weren t too unhappy when i stopped trying i vaguely remember going to dinner somewhere with a group but i think i was falling asleep day 4 august 18 friday a wonderful bishop from nigeria delivered catechesis in the morning and i was asked to read a petition prayer asking for something and i was so excited i love reading at church to my horror when i got to the pulpit and i realized that either the people in front of me were making their prayers up on the spot or were reading something they had prepared for themselves normally i wouldn t have minded at all but i usually need to be told i have to deliver something spontaneous i went up there and delivered something sincere but illogical a little red in the face i went back to my seat today was to be my first successful visit to the sports stadium where all the english speaking events were going on i didn t really know what we were going there to see but i followed happily since i had now acquired my jpii scarf from a very nice polish girl named luiza i pondered on the fact that i could just wear a pope scarf all day like it was totally normal and cool i had officially entered a pleasant version of the twilight zone the stadium was huge somebody said it fit 20 000 people and i couldn t believe it had been full for theology of the body i sat down and saw that there was already a panel of people they were talking about media mainly film and art my ears perked up art that s me matthew mardsen a british actor talked about how important it is for us to strive for excellence in art art needs to inspire man deeply and there is no place for art to be mediocre a christian label does not make a work of art brilliant i was writing all these things down when i noticed that one of the panelist was father robert barron weeeee brilliant here s a link to his website and the trailer for his latest venture word on fire http www wordonfire org i like him he talked about a film that he thought spoke particular human truths true grit is apparently fraught with awesome storytelling i ll probably write about that once i ve seen it but one of his points was that there is a difference between a movie showing bad things and a movie advocating bad things it is important to develop a mind and heart that discerns good from bad well being close to the lord is key in doing so i rushed down the steps of the stadium after the panel finished so i could meet him and i did i told him i was an artist at a video game company and sometimes i watched his commentaries while i worked i felt a little guilty about not wanting to stay for the next panel but i was getting a bit restless so i tried to go to a smaller talk in one of the side rooms of the arena but again it was overpopulated then i tried praying in a small chapel that was set up with all these cool screens depicting the mysteries of the rosary but i wasn t very successful in the end i think all i needed was some fresh air i went outside with linda and got some snacks mysteries of the rosary the rosary is divided by sections of one our father and ten hail marys and while you pray them you re supposed to meditate on a mystery aka a moment in the life of christ or mary for example the wedding of cana or the cruxifiction i went back inside to watch one of the most important events for wyd the stations of the cross on the big screens stations of the cross is a devotion in which you visit different moments of jesus passion all the way to the crucifixion if you go into almost any catholic church you will find depictions of these on the walls but for this occasion beautiful statues were brought from all over spain and the pope was there presiding over the prayer different groups of young adults who suffer persecution carried the wyd cross from one station to the other this same cross was taken to ground zero in new york not long before and it was originally a gift from jpii to the youth on my way back to the parish i bumped into badcatholic a fellow blogger i have never met save through blogs god is good it was a beautiful beautiful day i felt full this is the end of the madrid events before the grand culmination of mass with the pope that is the best story and it will be up soon thank you for reading con amor fabi posted by fabi at 10 58 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels world youth day thursday september 1 2011 7 quick takes friday vol 4 1 i seriously considered not writing this entry since i ve been very internety the last week which i attribute from internet withdrawal once in spain but it can t be that since i didn t really miss it it must be because while i am home i am just too horrifyingly interested in finding fun things that are just as fun as spain or maybe it s because i have all these things i said i would do online 2 one said thing is writing about wyd which is a bigger task than i though since there are some photos i m still waiting for and because the trip was so freaking packed but i will have that done at some point 3 the second said thing was writing an article for virtuouspla net a bunch of young adult catholic bloggers where invited to contribute stuff you can find my first entry advice to singletons here somebody got a little upset about it and i apologize i meant it to be mostly funny and to the point but compassionate too maybe i should stick to art 4 this really beautiful movie from studio ghibli is coming out soon take a look at the trailer 5 here is a quote from chesterton for the week they knew much better than we do what was the matter with them and what sort of demons at once tempted and tormented them and they wrote across that great space of history the text this sort goeth not out but by prayer and fasting excerpt from st francis of assisi on the christians that had lived the culture of the roman empire and were soon to begin living the middle ages emphasis by me 6 i drew this it s january the wise month that my character lucia encounters on a winter night 7 i just got a bible on my ipod best thing to do i can no longer make the excuse but it doesn t fit in my cute purse but i do have to strain my eyes a bit i think i will fall into the the kindle hole soon and just collect beautiful old editions and art books love fabi please visit http www conversiondiary com posted by fabi at 8 36 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 7 quick takes saturday august 27 2011 world youth day cordoba days in the diocese dear friend you ve begun the first chapter of this travel diary congratulations if you haven t read the intro do so now or be confused about what this entry is about i went to world youth day with my young adult group called y h o p e thirteen of us managed to go the flight to spain was uneventful except for the fact that i was dreadfully embarrassed of my knee hi stockings that i wore to help circulation in my legs during all that sitting down time i managed to whisk them off when we arrived in cordoba and were met by our fashionable host families at least they looked fashionable to me i might have imagined them wearing couture because of my anxiety over my stupid granny stockings that never saw the light of day again but i m happy to report that they worked marvelously cordoba we had no idea we were staying with host families for the first part of the our trip yuss linda the only one who brought a rolling suitcase and i stayed with the zamora family both parents are professors and they have three children the girls were especially lovely they both love to draw and we talked about their dreams of becoming fashion designers we were slowly introduced to other groups who were going to spend some time in cordoba before going to madrid for world youth day this time before wyd is called days in the diocese in our case cordoba was our host diocese diocese area under the care of a bishop we were invited to countryside for some food fellowship and swimming a couple of times there was also sightseeing and a procession where i met some australian and polish peeps pilar 11 me kateri and laura 17 in the evenings we had mass with the bishop and then there was music and dancing outside of the church i met people from spain southern france and canada prayer and worship continued inside the church so if you got tired of too much dancing not possible you could go back in and pay our lord a visit seminarians from iraq who suffer persecution in their own country for their faith kidnapping death etc danced until dawn one of them i was told had just gotten out of jail recently send off as our send off cordoba held a mini world youth day with the bishop there was a theatre performance testimonies singing adoration and sleeping on the grass the play on the life of jesus was silent but the music and artistry left me a bit dumbfounded i just didn t expect something like that and then they used a song from prince of egypt for their end number and i squealed like a two year old the bishop of cordoba danced with the little kids with there can be miracles in the background and marie our fearless organizer was about to bawl all i could think was how it could possibly get any better how could madrid be better after the play there were testimonies but the one that made everyone fall silent was the one given by a bishop of iraq who had suffered greatly but was so touched by the joy around him then there was adoration the monstrance for the eucharist looked like a spaceship made out of gold it s a treasure from the 16th century and it was brought out especially for this occasion monstrance basically a display case for the eucharist while adored most of the times it s in the shape of a radiating sun no matter how cool this was we were tired and so we slept on astroturf for a few hours then woke up for mass i was very sleepy but i did write down in my journal a bit of the bishop s sermon that struck me satan throws our sins in our face to discourage us but christ s victory is also ours bishopy ppl at the end of mass the heat was intense spain is hot and dry at this time about 100 degrees and we had to get our behinds to the train station so we could get to madrid we put on our hiking bags and walked for about forty minutes this quirky spanish lady decided to befriend us and insisted on walking us there she gave us cookies and we let her take snapshots of us with american flag win win in spain most people looooved americans others mmm not so much at the train station linda and i had a lot of coffee and tea and brian fell asleep on his laptop the rest is sort of a blur until we arrived at madrid where i was told i d be able to shower and see...